Podcast: Positive Technologies reveals security issues with 5G

Jimmy Jones, Telecoms Cybersecurity Expert at Positive Technologies, discusses the security issues of 5G with Don Witt form The Channel Daily News, a TR publication. Jimmy’s first comment summarizes the advancements of 5G being a transition from human to human communication to primarily a machine to machine era. With that, there has been an abundance of new signaling protocols like HTTP2 and JSON to support the evolving technology.  APIs have enhanced extensions to support the IoT devisces which need to be secured. While accelerating the 5G transition, it is also increaseing the security risk. Bridging or gatewaying to other networks becomes more complex to maintain low security  risk. Jimmy Jones Listen in as Jimmy discusses the extensive research Positive Technologies has done and find out what the analysis into 5G vulnerabilities has revealed. Positive Technologies is a global cybersecurity company. Its flagship Telecom Cybersecurity Suite enables network operators to drive business performance while protecting their subscribers and services. By providing greater visibility into infrastructure vulnerabilities and securing customer services, Positive Technologies helps to strengthen loyalty, drive revenue with value-added security offerings, and protect emerging telecom technologies such as 5G and the IoT. PT Telecom Attack Discovery (PT TAD) next generation signaling firewall empowers mobile network carriers to secure networks that use Signaling System 7 and Diameter protocols, protect subscribers and safeguard assets from hacker attacks. Criminals in the wild are already performing denial of service, intercepting calls and text messages, tracking subscriber locations, committing fraud, and stealing cellular operator data. PT TAD enables carriers to earn customer trust and guarantee compliance with GDPR, GSMA, and other recommendations for Diameter and SS7 protection. For more information, go to: https://positive-tech.com/